Brian Mercer Trust

Brian Mercer was a prolific inventor and industrialist. In 1956 he invented a revolutionary process for the manufacture of plastic nets that became known as Netlon. The Netlon process has become accepted as only the ninth generic textile process since the dawn of civilization. Its ingenuity comes from making a net not by weaving, but by the integral extrusion of molten plastic into mesh structures. Global interest in the process resulted in Netlon being rapidly licensed to many of the largest international companies in more than 30 countries around the world. Netlon products are well known in applications such as the packaging of fruit and vegetables, gardening meshes for plant support and fencing, and in the field of civil engineering.